Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S941878AbcJZXUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:45 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:33776 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936276AbcJZXUL (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:20:11 -0400 From: Jonathan Corbet To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jani Nikula , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH 10/11] docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:19:38 -0600 Message-Id: <1477523979-5837-11-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> References: <1477523979-5837-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 29 This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst index 0939d018c289..afb82ee0cbea 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org (http://x.org/) instead. +.. note:: + + This document is old and has seen little maintenance in recent years; it + should probably be updated or, perhaps better, just deleted. Most of + what is here can be found in the other development documents anyway. + + Oh, and we don't really recommend submitting changes to XFree86 :) + Also read the Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst document. -- 2.7.4